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Join Ron and Kellee Pope in this new episode. Goal: Learning About and Following Jesus. Christianity 101: Understanding and Applying God's Word Today Our Mission: communicate in everyday language the Word of God in a conversation between a father and his daughter. Why did Jesus pray? If Jesus is God, why did Christ need to pray? This instruction on how to pray from Jesus comes as part of a much larger teaching. This model prayer is unequalled in any book or prayers. It is unequalled in beauty, in its comprehensiveness, and was given to be used as a model. Its design expresses the manner in which one should pray. The prayer includes adoration, supplication for the Kingdom, for personal needs, for forgiveness, for deliverance from temptation and the ascription of glory. It is at once individual and universal; it sets the recognition of divine things first, and yet clearly asserts the ethical and social relations of life. That men should pray is taken for granted (Matthew 6:5). Its sacredness is involved in the command for privacy (Matthew 6:6); its importunity (Luke 11:5-9; 18:1-8); its necessary conditions of humility, absence of self righteousness (Luke 18:9-14), of display and repetition (Matthew 6:7); necessity of faith and a forgiving spirit (Mark 11:24-26); of agreement in social prayer (Matthew 18:19); submission to the will of Christ, "in my name".Kellee's LinkTree https://linktr.ee/KelleePope